<div><b>&quot;Original and innovative.&quot;</b>&nbsp;- David McNab, author of&nbsp;<i>No Place for Fairness</i> and&nbsp;<i>Walking a Tightrope</i><br><br>Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history. Although the use of airplanes as weapons of mass destruction was new, Mark Anderson maintains that the response to the attack was not: it was, in fact, as old as the Republic itself.<br><br>Beginning with the Mexican-American War and ending with the invasion of Iraq, <i>Holy War</i>&nbsp;probes presidential speeches, news reports, editorial cartoons, television programs, and films to uncover how the United States reverts back to its creation mythology of &quot;fighting Indians&quot; to justify centuries of American imperialism.<br><br><b>&quot;Captivatingly written, highly accessible, and engaging. This book makes a major contribution to scholarship on 9/11 by drawing parallels between these events and America's role in previous conflicts. More so, it illuminates the connection between a legacy of racist images of Indigenous peoples in American popular culture and the use of related imagery to justify American imperialistic intervention.&quot;</b> - Matthew Tegelberg, Assistant Professor, York University &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>